Improvement in trace-carriers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT F. HILL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

.l MPROVEMEN'F IN TRACE-CAR RI ERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,046, dated No'vcmber 25, 1879; application filed April 1 5, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT F. HILL, of Chicago, in the county of Cook; and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trace Carriers and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to.

the letters of reference marked thereon, m akin g a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a trace-carrier, as Will be hereinafter more fully set forth. In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the to allow only the smallest part of the cockeye to enter-namely, near the neck of the cockeye. Gr represents the trace with the cockeye H.

When the traces are unhitched the cockeyes are inserted in the hooks F, and as they hang down in natural shape the larger part of the cockeye turns into the hook, which prevents them from coming out. They can only be taken out by turning the cockeyes until their smallest part near the neck gets to the'ent-rance of the hooks.

Having thus fully described my invention, wliat'I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. The combination of theframeA, having crossbars a a, and pins 11 b, with the pivoted hooks F F, having narrow throats I I, constructed and arranged to allow the neck only of the cockeye on the end of the trace to enter, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of April, 1879.

ALBERT F. HILL.

Witnesses J. H. KNAUSS, AMos MILLER. 

